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- Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:32 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Patisambhidamagga specifically anapanasati
- Replies: 3
- Views: 118
Re: Patisambhidamagga specifically anapanasati
Ven. Bodhi is working on a translation of it and its commentary, apparently to be released this year.
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:48 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Two Types of Jhāna
- Replies: 33
- Views: 815
Re: Two Types of Jhāna
This is my point of view, I hope it can be helpful. ... It's either Right jhana or wrong. The Buddha's jhana is not an isolated activity. It's the culmination of seven other path factors; that's why we have the Eightfold Path. The idea that one could have wrong jhana as the eighth path factor is ju...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:11 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 89
- Views: 5877
Re: Identity View
Why do you say that?
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:41 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: the great rebirth debate
- Replies: 7548
- Views: 1331678
Re: the great rebirth debate
Arahants don't disappear when they attain nibbāna though do they. They abide with an awareness that's entirely disjoined, released and freed from death. A death-free awareness. Of course they don’t, because Arahants don’t ultimately exist. And you know that how? From the suttas and tradition.
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:19 am
- Forum: Shrine Room
- Topic: Venerable Kaṭukurunde Ñāṇananda (K.N.S.S.B.)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2897
Re: Venerable Kaṭukurunde Ñāṇananda (K.N.S.S.B.)
Dear Dhamma Friends It is indeed very well to remember Venerable Katukurnda Nanananda Thero. Through his series of books on Nivena Nevema and other volumes, the light of Dhamma shown to us. An this is stepping stone for further Development of Mind.It is through Venerable Dhamma sermons that Aloko U...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:19 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 89
- Views: 5877
Re: Identity View
Mano is inconstant, alterable, subject to change. Dhammā are inconstant, alterable, subject to change. That which is inconstant is dukkha. The Buddha taught that Nibbāna is deathless, unchanging, the end of dukkha, the foremost bliss. It’s still known via the mind though isn’t it. Ven. Sāriputta ex...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:15 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: the great rebirth debate
- Replies: 7548
- Views: 1331678
Re: the great rebirth debate
Nibbana is the cessation of craving, aversion and ignorance, not the end of existence. It’s also the cessation of existence. Arahants don't disappear when they attain nibbāna though do they. They abide with an awareness that's entirely disjoined, released and freed from death. A death-free awarenes...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:14 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 89
- Views: 5877
Re: Identity View
Yes and the arahant dwells with an awareness dissociated, disjoined and freed from all five aggregates. An awareness that's dissociated, freed and released from death, from the world, from the All. Really? Where does it say that in the suttas? “Freed, dissociated, & released from ten things, Bā...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:53 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Popularity of Mahāyāna
- Replies: 7
- Views: 214
Popularity of Mahāyāna
In my experience Mahāyāna is more prevalent and popular in the west. Why do you think this is?
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:48 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Getting through guilt and other emotional difficulties
- Replies: 7
- Views: 218
Re: Getting through guilt and other emotional difficulties
Thank you both for your guidance. Any books (psychology, Buddhist practise/wisdom, anything!) that would be brilliant. I also struggle with anxiety so all guidance gratefully received. And thanks again. Always a good place to start: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Buddhas-Words-Anthology-Discourses-Teachi...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:46 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Immersed in Freedom
- Replies: 4
- Views: 164
Re: Immersed in Freedom
You're welcome.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:55 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Ven. Dhammapāla on Nibbāna
- Replies: 5
- Views: 202
Ven. Dhammapāla on Nibbāna
In this commentary on the Visuddhimagga, regarding the section which discusses nibbāna, Ven. Dhammapāla writes this yadi nibbānaṃ nāma sabhāvadhammo atthi sattasantānapariyāpanno ca, atha kasmā catumahāpathe sabhā viya sabbasādhāraṇā na labbhatīti āha "maggasamaṅginā pattabbato asādhāraṇa"...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:33 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 89
- Views: 5877
Re: Identity View
Why would he speak so often about a self conventionally without ever telling anyone that this was the case? What's the difference between a conventional truth that isn't ultimately true and a lie? Where does the Buddha say he would have said there is no self if it wouldn't confuse V? In DN9, when t...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:11 pm
- Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
- Topic: sutta jhana and vipassana jhana
- Replies: 26
- Views: 861
Re: sutta jhana and vipassana jhana
hi. on this link Pubbaseliya, Theravada of the Third Council Is there any article that summarizes the opinions of each school? I can't find it well :cry: If you want to know more about the doctrines of the early schools then I recommend “The Buddhist Schools of the Small Vehicle” André Bareau. I po...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:02 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: On Ekaṁsikā and Anekaṁsikā
- Replies: 1
- Views: 53
On Ekaṁsikā and Anekaṁsikā
There is an interesting discussion that happens in DN 9 which I've never noticed before. In that sutta the Buddha is asked the following questions: Is the cosmos is eternal? Is the cosmos not eternal? he cosmos is finite’ The cosmos is infinite The soul (jīvaṁ) is the same thing as the body The soul...